More than ten years ago, I burrowed into a trove of tax records, real estate maps, water service accounts, and voter registrations to reconstruct the history of houses and their occupants in San Francisco's North Panhandle neighborhood, an up-and-coming district featured in the New York Times. First published in the newsletter of the North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association, a dozen house profiles will be presented here over the coming months. The first of the series can be read here.